FMF NEWSLETTER 1 August 2018

Freedom and prosperity for all – AYANDA KHUMALO

Given the current economic situation in the country characterised by low growth, more people are coming to appreciate the sound moral, philosophical, and economic underpinnings of a free market economy. The most important principles are without doubt those that relate to the freedom of the individual, which in a free society are supported by laws and regulations that are consistent with the rule of law. Economist Walter Williams defines a free market as “voluntary exchange between individuals, free of third party intervention”. The word “voluntary” excludes force or fraud. Who can have a problem with such a basis for peaceful human interaction? 

The apartheid system was characterised by authoritarian socialism, with domination by government over the entire population but with black South Africans bearing the brunt of the authoritarian policies. The FMF was founded in 1975 and spent almost 20 years arguing against apartheid and for freedom for all in a non-racial South Africa with equal rights for all. In doing so, the FMF published many books, monographs, papers and articles promoting the ideas of liberty, which it continues to do. Today, the same principles are promoted and the FMF continues to argue for a non-racial society and equalty before the law as being the best route to a prosperous and peaceful nation.

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Wednesday, 15 August 2018 MEDIA BRIEFING – Mike Settas and Johann Serfontein – Healthcare – 11:00 for 11:30 @ FMF – more info to follow

Wednesday, 22 August 2018 EVENING EVENT – Wandile Sihlobo – Land reform – 17:45 for 18:00  @ FMF – more info to follow

Non-FMF event Thursday, 16 August 2018 PUBLIC LECTURE – Dawie Roodt – 11:00 - 12:00 –  From Hunter Gatherers to Crypto Currencies, Our Amazing Journey  @ University of Johannesburg – RSVP to Yolandi Brough yolandib@uj.ac.za. Click here for more

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Tobacco Bill unjustified by government’s own impact assessment
How Japan empowered patients with free to choose medicine
The minimum wage doesn’t do what you think it does

Media release Subdivision and land use laws hinder land reform and are unconstitutional
Media digest JUNE 2018 for all media coverage

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Cecelia Kok – Are you free to be you? A talk on individual freedom and identity politics
Temba Nolutshungu and Terence Corrigan – Expropriation without compensation – betrayal of the struggle

Adrian Schofield & Leon Louw – The ECA Bill will be a disaster for South Africa
Grietjie Verhoef – History of strong African entrepreneurship held back by powerful constraints
Robert Vivian and Leon Louw – FAIS: the harbinger of things to come
Dawie Roodt – The final countdown: How to survive this awful budget

Leon Louw – What is Oxfam's real agenda? It's not pro-poor
Frans Rautenbach – The law trade unions and growth - what role do they play in job creation?
Eustace Davie –  Failure to respect constitutional rights causes mass unemployment
Leon Louw – New law guaranteed to raise price of data and limit internet access
Adrian Saville – Paths to prosperity - lessons for a six pack solution
Leon Louw – South African Airways: The facts behind the fiction
Neil Emerick –  Will South Africa crash and burn?
Garreth Bloor –  Want economic growth? Repeal bad law
Jasson Urbach & Johann Serfontein – NHI pie in the sky
Twin Peaks - how Treasury will cost SA an additional R4,8bn per year
FMF –  A constitution worth fighting for (1996)

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